Main plant was having some rot problems from the beginning where I was cutting brown piece of the leaf then the edge would get brown again, I would cut more, it'd get brown more. I was ready to throw away the whole thing when I noticed a small nubbing of new fan. Now it grew to this size, so I decided to log the plant in.
Here are the remains of the main plant - two brown pieces:
There are also two more new green entities(future fans or roots, I don't know yet) down at the base, they prevent me from trying to cut off the old brown pieces.
Now, the new fan has some brown edging on the bottom leaf too, so I might still end up throwing the whole thing away, but not just yet.
I love the high contrast patterning on the leaves. Do you know what affects how pronounced the mottling is? I've been trying to figure that out with my plants, since the patterning on many of them seems to have faded out.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, hope the orchid pulls through!
Hey Maria! From my experience the younger leaves are usually pale and then the pattern becomes more pronounced. Also the light levels might play some role too. At first I put my micranthum on the windowsill where it was getting bright light and the mottling faded after a while. Now in the basement with lower light my paphs mottling is pretty strong.
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